Continuous Planning

[kuh n-tin-yoo-uh s plan-ing]

Definition of Continuous Planning

Just-in-Time planning that supports the ‘Continuous Development’ Strategy by providing the agility required to meet the needs of a chaotic requirements environment. The Team Captain’s decision-making inherent in Continuous Planning is often informed by GOs that were provided by a Business Owner.

See:

Planning, A session with the whole Scrum Team (including the Team Captain) to decide which Stories should be “Done” next.
Continuous Development Strategy, A development strategy for a Sprint where the Backlog represents a Continuous Flow of work for the Team, and the Sprint simply defines the duration until ‘inspecting and adapting’ the...
Team Captain, The Team Member accountable for maximizing the value of the Scrum Team’s Work. Each Team must have its own Team Captain to ‘call the plays’ about what work the Team...
GO, Acronym for Guidance and Objectives. GOs are typically developed by Business Owners to help Team Captains and Product Champions with their decision-making.
Business Owner A Product Ownership role that represents a person who is accountable to the Business Organization for maximizing the overall value of Deliverable Results, which could represent one, or many, Products. ...

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